Well I know its Antrim!

[wildpup23]

my great great grandfather was william ferris from greenock, inverclyde, scotland. He was my mothers mothers mothers father. he married margaret and had 4 or 5 kids margaret, catherine, mary hannah, william. Mary hannah was my great grandmother andh was born in south wales and i think the others sirieblings were too. She married mr saunders (thomas think)  and had 2 kids tom and margaret. when mary hannah remarried.
To edwin jones and had a further 8 children.

if anyone can help please let me know

sarah x

[aghadowey]

Welcome to Rootschat but this isn't a forum for tracing living people and it looks like you may have mentioned some living people which is against the rules. If so, just click 'modify' on that post (you can do this within 24 hours) and remove those names.

in the 1881 census for Scotland there is the following family at 2 Ingleston St, Greenock East, Renfrewshire
John Ferris  22 born Ireland
Jane Ferris  20 born Ireland  (wife)
James Ferris 2 born Greenock (son)
William Ferris age 6 months born Greenock (son)
Annie Rodger 17 born Ireland (sister in law)

Do you think your great-great-grandfather was the above William Ferris (born c1880 in Greenock)? If so there's lots of information on the family already posted here.

There are online resources which will help- Scottish certificates (from pay site Scotland's People), FreeBMD (English & Welsh birth, marriage & death index), Family Search (another free site), etc. If you could give us an idea of dates it will make it easier to help you.

[wildpup23]

My great great grandfather william ferris lived in greenock but was born in 1856.
Ive seen a match to the same name and  date born in wiltshire. he may have been born elsewhere but he lived in greenock from a young age. my great grandmother, his daughter was born in port talbot, south wales and as far as i know the brother n sisters Amwere.

i have uploaded 3 pics. one of my g.g. grandparents william ferris and his wife possibly name oldest cgd margaret.

One pic is of the same william ferris and his wife with daughters catherine, margaret and mary hannah and mary hannahs oldest daughter margaret as a baby

one pic is of mary hannah jones (was ferris) william ferris' daughter

[aghadowey]

So it appears that your William Ferris has probably nothing to do with Co. Antrim and is probably nothing to do with the Ferris family in this topic?

It's best to work through available records in a logical manner to avoid following details from the wrong person/family. The latest available census is 1911 (we aren't allowed to do lookups for the England & Wales one) and if you can find your family on that one & work back it should be possible to find where William Ferris was born (England or Scotland).

Other than William Ferris was born in 1856 you still haven't given us much detail so that we can help you.

When were his children born in Port Talbot (names and dates or even approx. dates please)- we might be able to find them in 1901 census for you.